Transfer Avios (Iberia Plus) to Avios (BA)
Jun 21, 2018, 9:37 pm
#437
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: HNL
Programs: DL PM/1MM, BW DE (lifetime), HH DE, Marriott PE (lifetime), National Emerald Executive
Posts: 7,205
Was able to finally transfer IB->BA directly (on ba.com). Just took several tries over quite a few days. Once it finally worked. No rhyme or reason..
Dec 3, 2018, 10:27 pm
#438
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle
Programs: AAdvantage Plat+, FoundersCard, Amex Plat, TR Diamond, Marriott Gold, Wyndham Dia, HH Gold, Hertz 5*
Posts: 785
Just tried to get my Avios accounts and those of Mrs Huge in order for transfers ... after much hoop-jumping (mostly because I needed to have my Iberia PIN be all numbers) I have all of my accounts that should be able to transfer working, i.e. everything except IB->BA. With Mrs Huge, I can't do anything in or out of BA (I get the "details don't match" error). I assume the problem is that her name on her BA profile is MS Bertha B Bellows [not her real name] while on the others it's just Bertha Bellows. I'm posting here just to confirm that that is clearly enough of a difference to cause a problem, and that I/we need to call BA to fix it (sounds like emailing them is less than satisfying). Does that sound correct or is there anything else I could be looking at before I go down the terrifying path of trying to talk to a human being on a phone?
Dec 4, 2018, 11:51 am
#439
Join Date: May 2013
Location: MAD
Programs: IB+, BAEC
Posts: 3,106
Just tried to get my Avios accounts and those of Mrs Huge in order for transfers ... after much hoop-jumping (mostly because I needed to have my Iberia PIN be all numbers) I have all of my accounts that should be able to transfer working, i.e. everything except IB->BA. With Mrs Huge, I can't do anything in or out of BA (I get the "details don't match" error). I assume the problem is that her name on her BA profile is MS Bertha B Bellows [not her real name] while on the others it's just Bertha Bellows. I'm posting here just to confirm that that is clearly enough of a difference to cause a problem, and that I/we need to call BA to fix it (sounds like emailing them is less than satisfying). Does that sound correct or is there anything else I could be looking at before I go down the terrifying path of trying to talk to a human being on a phone?
Don't know if they fixed it but literally every Spanish person has to do it since the surnames don't match. Quite an oversight when one of the programs is Spanish.
Dec 4, 2018, 12:04 pm
#440
Join Date: May 2018
Programs: SAS Gold, Hilton Diamond, OWS
Posts: 251
Just tried to get my Avios accounts and those of Mrs Huge in order for transfers ... after much hoop-jumping (mostly because I needed to have my Iberia PIN be all numbers) I have all of my accounts that should be able to transfer working, i.e. everything except IB->BA. With Mrs Huge, I can't do anything in or out of BA (I get the "details don't match" error). I assume the problem is that her name on her BA profile is MS Bertha B Bellows [not her real name] while on the others it's just Bertha Bellows. I'm posting here just to confirm that that is clearly enough of a difference to cause a problem, and that I/we need to call BA to fix it (sounds like emailing them is less than satisfying). Does that sound correct or is there anything else I could be looking at before I go down the terrifying path of trying to talk to a human being on a phone?
May 21, 2019, 11:28 am
#441
Moderator: Southwest Airlines, Capital One
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: California
Programs: WN Companion Pass, A-list preferred, Hyatt Globalist; United Club Lietime (sic) Member
Posts: 21,625
Nov 11, 2020, 3:17 am
#442
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: MAN,POZ
Programs: Tinder Plus
Posts: 116
Technically it should work, however, my account is more than 90 days old and I transferred 1000 Amex points less than 90 days ago and combine option is still now available as per screenshots below.
Nov 11, 2020, 4:09 am
#443
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
Posts: 19,180
This nonsense goes on and on. They have made it as complicated as they possibly can. I cannot say that all Spanish IT is rubbish but it is not user-friendly. Thanks to C-W-S - I actually managed to transfer Avios from Vueling to BA. It was not straightforward. Once upon a time it was easy as pie to transfer Avios into BA Avios (possibly Iberia as well but I would not know) - now it is as hard as they could make it.